Nathan Deal on Principles & Values

Republican Governor; previously Representative (GA-10)

Converted from Democrat to GOP in tide of 1994

In political terms, the Republican tide of 1994 did not ebb the following year. Two senators, Richard Shelby (AL) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (CO), and one representative, Nathan Deal (GA), made it 78 local, state, and federal official who have become
Republicans since Bill Clinton was elected president. The political map looks like a reversal of the map from New Deal days. The 104th Congress is the first since Reconstruction with a Republican majority of the 125 seats in the once-Solid South.

Source: Newt!, by Dick Williams, p.212
, Jun 1, 1995

Religious affiliation: Baptist.

Deal : religious affiliation:

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